Tag: China

Beltway Confidential

Huawei’s hilariously bad new phones

Tom Rogan · September 19, 2019 7:10 pm

Secretary of the Army Mark Esper leaves the Meuse-Argonne cemetery, northeastern France, after a remembrance ceremony, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018.

Pentagon chief Esper: China’s economic power is ‘what concerns me the most’

Russ Read · September 19, 2019 7:03 pm

President Trump tweeted shortly after his phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping to announce his administration would impose a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea in light of the ballistic missile test on Monday.

Trump adviser says tariffs could go to 50% or 100% if China doesn’t agree to deal

Sean Higgins · September 19, 2019 1:43 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo an excavator removes trees that were bulldozed for a firebreak in the battle against Rim Fire along Dodge Ridge in the Stanislaus National Forest, near Tuolumne City, Calif. Wildlife advocates on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, plan to sue the U.S. Forest Service, attempting to block part of a recently unveiled plan for logging trees burned last year in the massive Sierra Nevada wildfire. The Center for Biological Diversity argues that federal forestry officials have ignored science showing that the California spotted owl population has soared since the Rim Fire scorched 400 square miles. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Timber industry pressing to be included in Trump trade war assistance for farmers

Sean Higgins · September 19, 2019 4:00 am

President Trump arrives with Federal Reserve board member Jerome Powell to announce him as his nominee for the next chair of the Federal Reserve in the Rose Garden of the White House in D.C.

Fed cuts rates, facing global risks and pressure from Trump

Joseph Lawler · September 18, 2019 6:00 pm

In this July 30, 2019 photo, Robert O'Brien, U.S. Special Envoy Ambassador, arrives at the district court where U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky is to appear on charges of assault, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Beltway Confidential

What to make of Trump’s new national security adviser

Tom Rogan · September 18, 2019 5:36 pm

Containers and gantry cranes stand at Haitian Container Terminal, operated by the Xiamen Port Authority, in Xiamen, China, on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.

The US Export-Import Bank is China’s cash cow

Timothy P. Carney · September 18, 2019 2:14 pm

The Pennsylvania Avenue entrance of the J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Building is seen in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.

FBI arrests Chinese official in fraudulent visa scheme

Caitlin Yilek · September 17, 2019 3:55 pm

President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi share a laugh together during a bilateral meeting at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Modi, Trump, and a rally to make foreign policy great again

Tom Rogan · September 17, 2019 1:10 pm

Hong Kong protestor wears an American flag mask over his face.

Beltway Confidential

Trump and Hong Kong protesters have more in common than you think

Ying Ma · September 17, 2019 4:00 am

Kevin Cramer, Kyrsten Sinema.

No to Cramer and Sinema’s Export-Import Bank bill

Washington Examiner · September 16, 2019 2:09 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping and former Vice President Joe Biden stand together as President Xi Jinping prepares to board a motorcade during an arrival ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015.

Biden boasts he spent more time with China’s Xi Jinping as VP ‘than any other world leader has since’

Naomi Lim · September 16, 2019 1:31 am